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416-420 Kent, Williamsburg

In April 2016, the designs for three new residentialtowers for Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood were revealed. New York-based ODA’s aim is that the towers, called 416-420 Kent, have a revitalising impact on the neglected East River waterfront, introducing a new sense of community, along with natural light and green space.

“420 Kent’s design strays from the classic commercial extrusion consumed by today’s typical residentialtowers. The vast majority of rectangularly extruded towers in NYC are formal results of many historical, contextual and practical influences. For years, the archetypal -curtain wall- towers were realms of massive corporations, and as population density in New York increased, our habitats naturally adopted a similar two dimensional shape.